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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The parents of a 3-year-old girl say she's being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, but experts caution the situation may be much more complex....

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Building materials that better retain heat in the winter, and reflect it in the summer; plumbing fixtures that save water; and facilities that encourage employees to bicycle to work.

Environmentally-friendly features like these enable the new research building at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to be certified as a green structure.

The Colket Translational Research Building has been certified as a LEED building by the US Green Building Council.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- A national policy of routine opt-out HIV testing would extends the lives of thousands of people, a researcher said here.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- An old antibiotic -- one of the last drugs still active against many bacteria -- is facing rapidly developing resistance, a researcher said here.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Two new studies failed to find a solid link between anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy and infections among rheumatoid arthritis patients.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Children with acute osteomyelitis can be safely switched to oral antimicrobial therapy early in the course of treatment to avoid prolonged use of central venous catheters, researchers found.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- The pattern of facial trauma may help identify women abused by a spouse or significant other, researchers said.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Live kidney donors who are obese do well after donation, at least in the short term, and so do the recipients, according to a retrospective cohort study.

PHILADELPHIA -- As soon as patients are added to an organ transplant waiting list, they should be asked if they will accept an organ from a donor who is older or sicker than standard criteria allow, according to ethicists here.